{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-642/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-642/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2007/642",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 4 October 2007 on emergency measures applying to fishery products imported from Albania and intended for human consumption (notified under document number C(2007) 4482) (Text with EEA relevance) (2007/642/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-642",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Analytical tests for histamine",
  "text": "1. Competent authorities shall authorise the import into Great Britain of products referred to in Article 1 only if they are accompanied by the results of an analytical test for histamine carried out in Albania or a foreign accredited laboratory before consignment which reveals histamine levels below the limits set by Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005. These tests must be carried out following the sampling and the analytical method referred in Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005.\n2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, competent authorities shall authorise the import of products referred to in Article 1 that are not accompanied by the results of the analytical test as referred to in paragraph 1 provided that the competent authority ensures that each consignment of those products undergoes tests to verify that the histamine levels are below the limits set by Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005. These tests must be carried out following the sampling and the analytical method referred in Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005. The competent authority shall place the consignment concerned under official detention until it obtains a favourable result.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (16.11.2022) by The Animals, Food, Plant Health, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1090), regs. 1(1), 11(3)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (16.11.2022) by The Animals, Food, Plant Health, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1090), regs. 1(1), 11(3)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(2) substituted (E.W.S.) (16.11.2022) by The Animals, Food, Plant Health, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1090), regs. 1(1), 11(3)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(2) substituted (E.W.S.) (16.11.2022) by The Animals, Food, Plant Health, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1090), regs. 1(1), 11(3)(b)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2007/642/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:17:04.526791+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}